From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 25 00:25:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA25928 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jan 1996 00:25:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA25921 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 1996 00:25:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id TAA29877; Thu, 25 Jan 1996 19:01:57 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199601250831.TAA29877@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Amancio's tv program with capture! To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 19:01:56 +1030 (CST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199601250653.HAA11635@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from "Luigi Rizzo" at Jan 25, 96 07:53:40 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Luigi Rizzo stands accused of saying: > > You probably didn't mean an xterm... imagine videoconferencing in > > ASCII art. 8-). > > I did exactly mean that: I was really impressed by the quality of > your ascii drawing! > > And, there are advantages in using ascii: faces are all the same, > moving lips just require to flip a couple of chars: > > ______ ______ > ,/------\. ,/------\. > ] o o [ ] o o [ > | / | | / | > \ == / \ -- / > \____/ \____/ This reminds me of a really atrocious old Mac terminal program whose one claim to fame was interpreting the output from online chat sessions, animating a set of faces onscreen and attempting to speak the words. *ahem*. I'll shut up now 8) > Luigi -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[